Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and 12 more successful people reveal their favorite places to 'think big'

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and 12 other successful entrepreneurs revealed their favorite places to "think big" on the podcast "Masters of Scale."

Host Reid Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn, said it's one of the questions he asks every guest on the show.

Their answers ranged from the treadmill and a dance studio to the Golden Gate Bridge.

What is your favorite place to think big?

That's the question LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said he asks every one of his guests on his podcast "Masters of Scale," from Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates.

On a "Masters of Scale" episode from earlier this year, Hoffman revealed several of the responses he's gathered over the years. He learned that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg does her best thinking on the treadmill, for example, while Netflix CEO Reed Hastings thinks best while sitting in his living room.

ClassPass founder and CEO Payal Kadakia chose "a dance studio."

Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, said he was best at thinking big on his surfboard or his bike.

Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake didn't have a where, but a when: "I keep very strange hours. I have this span of time between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., usually, in which I do a lot of thinking and a lot of work," she said.

John Elkann, chairman of Fiat Chrysler, said he liked to do his thinking in nature. "On one side, it really grounds you to see how incredibly extraordinary nature is," he told Hoffman. "On the other, it really stimulates you to think big, to dream, and be ambitious."